Putin. Well see about today. Were looking for the United States to improve this computer glitch. That does it for us. Well see you right back here tomorrow. In the meantime, Stephanie Ruhle picks up the coverage. Good morning, everyone. Im Stephanie Ruhle with a lot to cover today. Starting with answers, emails and calls. Some of President Trumps response to Robert Muellers questions now revealed has new details on the investigation emerged. Latenight phone calls between donald trump and his associate roger stone and the president dangling a pardon for, guess who, Paul Manafort. Emission failure. The va says it will not reimburse all veterans who were paid less due to a technical glitch. Taking stock. Markets surge after the fed chair suggests interest rate
increases might slow down. Now an expected meeting between trump and the leader xi jinping over the weekend. Theres a possibility a deal can be made. Having said that, some caveats as always. We begin with some of the very fest deta
federal government and then ask the questions, well, why doesn t congress have a say in this, and why doesn t this be the primary respondent of the states. responsibility of the states. reporter: while conservative justices seem they seemed less so. all of which the ones i m familiar affect employees when they are on the job but not when they are not on the job. and this affects employees all the time. if you re vaccinated while you re on the job, you re vaccinated when you re not on the job. reporter: the standout following yesterday s oral arguments was some inaccurate data cited by justice sotomayor. here s one moment. we have over 100,000 children, which we ve never had before, in serious condition and many on ventilators. that s not true. we have not had 100,000 children in serious condition in u.s. hospitals.
america s back to work. reporter: a lukewarm jobs report shows the pandemic is still the president s biggest challenge and an ongoing drag on the economy as his first year new year s an end. we re going to be able to control this. reporter: still biden promising the new normal won t be worse than the old one. covid as we re dealing with it now is not here to stay. reporter: those comments after cdc director rochelle walensky said this to savannah guthrie. we are definitely looking at a time ahead of us where covid, sars-cov-2 will be an endemic virus. reporter: biden may lose a key tool in his arsenal, the supreme court poised to block his testing mandate for large employers after arguments on friday. why doesn t congress have a say in this, and why doesn t this be the primary responsibility of the states? reporter: the white house still playing catchup on the covid testing shortages inking the first contracts for at home tests as part of the biden s
america has always been facing threats, transnational gangs, cartels, china, but the biden doj with great fanfare ha concocted a new threat. you. we have seen a growing threa from those who are motivated by racial animus as well as those who describe to extremist antigovernment and antiauthorit ideologies. i decided to establish the domestic terrorism unit to augment our existing approach. to get the message is what kaman . you have the wrong ideology, an you could be targeted by federa agents, and treated like a terrorist. joining me now is the former head of the fbi from an investigative and former fbi assistant director. chris, this stems from the week after the january 6 anniversary while the voting rights push is going on so-called voting right bush, doesn t this seem a littl to cutely find here. it s way too much in sync. i would like to think they doj
congress have a say in this and why doesn t this, it be the primary responsibility of the states. reporter: the five conservative justices seemed more receptive to a vaccine mandate for health care workers. one takeaway were the false statements shared by justice sonia sotomayor who phoned in to the hearings from her office. we have over 100,000 children, which we ve never had before, in serious condition and many on ventilators. that s not true. we have not had 100,000 children in serious condition in u.s. hospitals. according to the cdc reporter: yeah, the number is actually around 3,000. but according to the cdc, it s unclear how many of those children were brought into hospitals for other reasons and simply tested positive upon arrival. the biden administration is ready to implement the vaccine requirements next week, so a ruling could come out within